A collection of quotes and passages I've collected over the years. Some are well known, some are things I've heard in passing, or my friends have said. Some I've lost the source for, but if you know, please leave a comment.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO…
— Terry Pratchett
philosophy prose social constructs meaning
You may have been given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
— Unknown
idiom negativity
The food gymbros eat is like what you'd give to a pitbull on their birthday
— Unknown
funny nutrition
Kubernetes is a great tool for doing complex things in a relatively reliable and consistent fashion. Many people don't realise that not doing complex things is also an option h…
— Chris Fowles
funny tech industry kubernetes complexity simplicity
Your mind isn't yours until you fight for it
— Schopenhaur
philosophy critical thinking
The bread is poisoning us, and we can no longer afford the circus
— Unknown
control collapse
Guys we made up numbers and then we couldn't figure everything about them!
— Chongqing Punk
funny absurd math
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
— Tennessee Williams
philosophy existentialism time
Barriers for entry keeps people out, but hoops make for excellent jumpers
— Chongqing Punk
philosophy
With the connective power of the internet, there are a lot more of THOSE people then there ever were before. I'm not singling anyone out by the way. I just mean the out-group is l…
— Chongqing Punk
tech industry control social media
I had a hole in my second favorite drinking arm, and the only way we were likely to get Fabiana back now was in installments.
— Max Payne (Video Game Character)
funny prose
I swallowed my fear; cold and scaly, it slithered down my chest
— Max Payne (Video Game Character)
prose
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
work ethic action
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
work ethic action
It had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.
— Mordin Solus (Videogame Character)
perfectionism responsibility
Life, if well lived, is long enough
— Seneca
philosophy stoicism
I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit,…
— Anthony Bourdain
work ethic passion
"What happens to a wanderer?” Moses asked Neph. “Does he ever come home?” And Neph answered ruefully that wanderers were those who sought their home – not those who left it. The c…
— Howard Fast
philosophy travel wandering
There are no illegal thoughts
— Oggie (Friend)
philosophy politics personal control
Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of …
— Peter Watts
AI philosophy biology consciousness
My genes done gone and tricked my brain By making fucking feel so great That's how the little creeps attain Their plan to fuckin' replicate But brain's got tricks itself, you …
— Peter Watts
existentialism biology consciousness
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of percei…
— Peter Watts
control memes
Well,----me,” he said. “A----ing wizard. I hate----ing wizards!” “You shouldn’t----them, then,” muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes.
— Terry Pratchett
funny prose
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bug…
— Terry Pratchett
funny philosophy ancient greek cynicism stoicism epicureanism
It's easy to condemn the "find out" when you ignore the "fuck around" that preceded it...
— Buddha The Pug (Youtube User)
funny
You had better behave or I'll wet your lips and stick you to the window
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
He wouldn’t give ya the steam off his piss
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
You wouldn't get up on them to get over a wall
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
You wouldn't ride them into battle/if they had pedals
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
If there was work in the bed, he’d sleep on the floor
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom laziness
If he fell down he'd be halfway home
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
If he were any longer, he'd be late.
— Unknown
funny insult irish idiom
Many in germany knew the war was lost when the Great Victories occured closer and closer to home.
— Unknown
fascism control propaganda war
... men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them
— John Steinbeck
love
The fact that propaganda is deemed not only necessary but a priority by the controller class tells you how powerful you actually are
— Unknown
control propaganda
Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
— Dr. Wilson (TV Character)
beauty truth
Which came first, the music or the misery?
— Chongqing Punk
If you got nothing to hide... why are you picking your nose?
— Chongqing Punk
funny absurd
That cat in the box... it's dead. Cause YOU looked at it
— Chongqing Punk
funny science
And how is email finding you these days?
— Chongqing Punk
funny existentialism
when you have an nft........... you can look at it
— Chongqing Punk
funny tech industry nfts crypto
The great thing about ironic detachment is that you can pull the plug and call it a joke at any time ;D
— Chongqing Punk
funny
Creation requires cooperation. I wish that was taught in schools. Rather than 'follow your heart, but do it quietly'
— Chongqing Punk
philosophy creativity
The dad joke. That's just a term for when you outgrow saying edgy shit to your friends and embrace your final phase as a human... an absolute cheeseball who takes *delight* in che…
— Chongqing Punk
funny
Magic is real, and you're a wizard. I believe that. And I believe in you. Now go get that drill and drill 65 holes into your wall at random
— Chongqing Punk
funny absurd
The hate watch is perverse. You don't even need to think about it. It just is. Your attention is your world. So stop paying attention to bad things. You're making a bad world for …
— Chongqing Punk
philosophy attention
Ideas that don't work are just as valuable to the human knowledge base as ideas that do. How many bad ideas have you had today? I've had 12. Keep it up!
— Chongqing Punk
funny philosophy inspiration
Dawg I can miltytask will two monters.
— Unknown
funny absurd
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system o…
— Aldous Huxley
philosophy control
I'll never get over the fact that all you people are just me with the details changed around. I don't really care for it. You know when I go outside, I expect to be treated a cert…
— DJ Peach Cobbler (Youtuber)
funny existentialism insult
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